About
Our Mission: We believe free food is a human right! The collaborative mission of the PSU Food Pantry is to be of service to currently enrolled Portland State University students, by providing a free resource, a sharing community, and a welcoming, inclusive, dignified environment to acquire food items on a regular basis.
Our Story: The PSU Smallwood Food Pantry was established by a group of students in ASPSU in 2012. We started as a small, student-run pantry on a single shelf. Today, we are an Oregon Food Bank Partner Agency that serves an average of 1,200 students a week. We have been in our newly renovated space in the basement of Smith for a little over a year and continue to support the pantry’s original mission of increasing food security for PSU students. As a pantry, we provide free supplemental groceries to all PSU students.